Cannot get XP to install on K7N2 Delta ILSR Serial ATA-get STOP:

Just so folks have it, I have the following type of memory.

2 Sticks of:

SAMSUNG 1024MB TRUE MDD1GP8ST
PC2700 333Mhz Non-ECC
64x64

Has anyone gotten a XP3000+, K7N2-Delta-ILSR, and PC2700 memory
to actually work? In my case it just always crashes no matter how
conservative
I set things up in the BIOS.

thx

slee wrote:


Hi,

So I have pulled out one stick of memory and gone down to just 1 Samsung
1 GB 333 FSB memory stick. Moved it between all 3 slots on the mother
board(MSI K7N2-Delta-ILSR) and it makes no difference. I have the latest
June 3 BIOS and the latest 1.0.0.19 Serial ATA driver for winXP and
windows
XP either completes the install and then hangs and crashes at reboot
but now it
will not even finish installing the files from the CD and just crashes
with many
different various "STOP: 0xA or 0x8E or 0x24" messages.

This is mobo is completely unstable with just serial ATA disks and
does not work.

Anyone know the magic to get this to work?

thanks

Steve wrote:


Hmmm, you know I thought about pulling one of the sticks of RAM out
but had not tried that yet. I have 2 1GB DDR banks of RAM. I will
give that a shot and see what happens because this is looking
hopeless and
I am very disappointed in my new MSI motherboard. Entirely too
difficult
to get this POS up and running....

thanks!

Doughnut wrote:

This sounds very familiar to when I was installing on a normal Ide
setup,
when the format was complete and it started to setup windows it would
sometimes crash when copying the files or after it had rebooted it
would
crash during setup. I sorted this by removing a stick of ram.
Seemed like
the ram wouldnt take the stress of the setup routine. I swapped the
ram for
a new stick and all is fine.

Hope this helps.
Doughnut


wrote in message
...


Hi,

I have a new K7N2 Delta ILSR(-030) Mobo with the
promist 20376 Serial ATA controller. I am using
2 Seagate 160 GB drives in striped setup. The RAID
setup works perfect, get them viewed as a single
300 GB hard drive.

Then continue on to install XP, press F6 to load the
promise 376 controller driver, it does it and as I
get to the point where I can start to install XP it
*always* crashes with:

A problem has been detected and windoze has been shut
down to prevent damage to your computer:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error
screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears
again follow these steps:

Check to make sure your new hardware or software is properly
installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hw or
sw vendor for any windows updates you might need.

If problem continues, disable or remove any newly installed
hw or sw. Diable BIOS memory options, such as caching or
shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable
components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced
Startup options and then select safe mode.

TECHNICAL INFO:
***STOP: 0x0000000A(0x99DF0010,0x00000002,0x00000000,0x807C B2BB)
---------------------------------
Other times it will give me the same STOP but with different memory
locations like:

***STOP: 0x0000000A(0x7583D738,0x00000002,0x00000000,0x807D 327B)

HELP!!?? How do you get XP to load on a 300 GB partition, using this
motherboard, only Serial ATA drives?

FYI: I can get through low level format with XP, create partitions,
etc,
etc.

thanks in advance!